In delivering a wide-ranging update to city council earlier this week on major transit projects planned for Mississauga, including the Hazel McCallion Line, the director of the city\u2019s Rapid Transit Office suggested any questions on timelines and a completion date for the Hurontario Street LRT route be saved until next Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Such queries \u201ccan best be addressed by the CEO of Metrolinx\u201d at the April 22 meeting, Carolyn Ryall, who stepped into the RTO director\u2019s role in Mississauga last November, told the mayor and council.<\/p>\n
The new LRT line, which when completed will whisk passengers from Port Credit GO station in south Mississauga north into Brampton along Hurontario Street, was initially to open in fall 2024.<\/p>\n
However, the project has encountered various delays and Metrolinx has not said when it expects the job to be completed.<\/p>\n
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Senior city staff, councillors and Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish have expressed frustration for the better part of the past year with ongoing delays associated with construction of the LRT line.<\/p>\n
Last September, Parrish described the project as \u201can incredible mess.\u201d<\/a> She later told INsauga.com it wouldn\u2019t surprise her if the new LRT route didn\u2019t take its first passengers until 2029<\/a>.<\/p>\n If she\u2019s right with that estimate, that would put the massive transit project, the largest in Mississauga\u2019s history, roughly four to five years behind schedule.<\/p>\n When it opens to passengers, the Hazel McCallion Line will feature more than 20 stops along the route, including several in Mississauga\u2019s downtown core by Square One. Metrolinx received the go-ahead from the province in February 2024 to extend the LRT line by three or four kilometres into downtown Brampton and reintroduce the \u201cdowntown loop\u201d<\/a> to the City Centre area of Mississauga. The latter component will add several stops to the route.<\/p>\n Ontario Premier Doug Ford said earlier this year that extending the $4.6-billion Hazel McCallion Line from Hurontario Street into the busy and fast-growing downtown core of Mississauga will cost another $1.6 billion<\/a> \u2014 the construction tab to be picked up by the provincial government.<\/p>\n